Marx & Engels, Communist Manifesto, 1848

omnipresent heretical conspiracy to overthrow all property relations

“Capitalism was the response of the feudal lords, the patrician merchants, the bishops and popes, to a centuries-long social conflict that, in the end, shook their power.” Capitalism, she writes, was a counterrevolution.

Later came new progress. He no longer worked for the master, but for himself. On condition of an annual rent, which at first was perhaps variable, but which afterwards became fixed, he had the benefit of the harvest. He thus found some recompense for his labor, and his life was at the same time freer and more independent. “The chiefs of families,”